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Akhilesh Tiwari

Akhilesh Tiwari leads Tata Consultancy Services’ rapidly growing Enterprise Application Services (EAS) business. He is responsible for driving strategy, growth and customer success. Drawing on more than 20 years of international and multi-faceted leadership experience, Akhilesh identifies strategic opportunities to build and grow the business by forging strong partnerships with the world's leading business applications companies while shepherding customers on their transformation journeys. Leading a talented global team of technology experts and business consultants, Akhilesh manages a portfolio of cross-industry and pan-enterprise business application services.

Posts by AkhileshTiwari:

Manufacturing has conventionally been about maximizing returns by achieving the right efficiency, speed, quality, and cost throughout production. Today though, the agenda for manufacturers has changed…without really changing. Staying efficient and profitable continues to remain critical, but this alone does not determine success. A constantly evolving global marketplace, growing demands… read more →

The fast rise of a global economy and digital businesses has placed new demands on companies to stay competitive: create responsive and predictive supply chains. It isn’t surprising given how customers, whether they are individual consumers or large businesses, expect to shop when and where they want, select from endless… read more →

With competition from new and unconventional players, there’s no denying that boundaries between industry sectors are blurring. Communications providers are now venturing into media, banks are emulating retailers to redefine customer experience, and even conventional B2B industries such as manufacturing are realigning themselves to cater to the segment of one.… read more →

Smart companies are looking at some of their products, services, processes within their supply chains, and customer experiences, and rethinking how they use batch processes to manage the competing objectives of providing customized agile products and realizing economies of scale. Since the industrial revolution, batch processes have been a boon… read more →

If you have been around for the past couple of decades, you’ve probably noticed that the case for digital transformation has changed dramatically. In the beginning, ideas like digital experiences, ecommerce, automation and the like were viewed as fashionable marketing or sales experiments, with little proof of how they would… read more →

One of the primary objectives for most companies today is to not only collect and store data from multiple sources efficiently, but to effectively analyze it for new insights. If you put the right insights in the hands of decision-makers, you’ll uncover new efficiencies, see problems before they grow, and… read more →

Let’s Figure Out How to Get the Best Returns from SAP S/4HANA Modern enterprises generate, collect, and store a ton of data. They also invest heavily in tech-projects that automate and integrate business functions. Despite these efforts, many struggle to generate timely insights, optimize processes and improve their operating… read more →

The Internet of Things Hits The Mainstream Gartner forecasts that by 2020 there will be 25 billion connected things in our world. These connections, which together make up the Internet of Things (IoT), have morphed from a digital dream to a mainstream reality. The IoT has become a powerful force… read more →

Time For Technology Investments to Deliver Results The past five years have seen unprecedented levels of technology investment as companies across the spectrum have poured money into cloud technology, digitization, and automation. Boardrooms are becoming impatient to see those investments translate into returns. Cloud technologies promised to make companies more… read more →

In my previous blogs I discussed the benefits accruing to enterprises that find hybrid cloud solutions to their ERP transformations. They are able to capture financial benefits as they convert CapEx spend to OpEx while retaining the security benefits of on-premises applications alongside the speed and agility of cloud-based applications.… read more →